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A , 1`.11.5. ,vßßivto r Dublin. Due—z Gottenburgh, t Malta, 1 LiSboll, ; Waterford. PRICE OF :;PUCKS THIS DAY AT TtViil, , 'L O'CLOCK• Consols -69 i Omni= - - i pr• THE SU N. 50L.204 QUIS DiCIRZ I , ALSLISA •UDIAT ? L 0 ND 0 2V, THURSDAY, JUL'Y 20, 1809. Ws yesterday laid before our Readers the sub stance of the 2441 Bulletin of the French Army, which we this day print at length. This is much more important than any of . those which hate reached us since the one which brought an account of the battle of AApern. It announces, in the most distind language, that all the stupendons prepara tions for passing the Danube, and for securing the French army in case of a second defeat, are completed. BUONAPARTE would not have made this declaration if he did not mean immediately to resume offen sive operations, for he has now deprived himself of every excuie for further inactivity. He must now either attack his opponents, or confess himself unequal to the contest, unless, indeed, he should suc ceed in seducing the Euiperur of Austria into a Ne 'gctiat ion, It is impossible to contemplate this dread ful cora& without sensations of the most awful kind. Upon its issue will depend the fate of the Continent of Europe ; and although the talents dis played by the Archduke, and the bravery manifested by his army, are calculated to excite our hopes, yet, on the other hand, it is impossible to consider the immense means which BUONAPARTE possesses, and - the skill with which there can be no doubt they will be diretled, without feeling considerable apprehen- BUoNAPARTE must know the danger of his situation; he will therefore strain every faculty, and employ every artifice, to extricate himself. Hither to he has fought for conquest ; he must now fight for exigence; and his exertions undoubtedly will be proportioned to the stake for which he plays. This Bulletin mentions the approach of the Rus sians, but there is no reason to suppose that they would arrive' in time to take a share in the battle, which, we are told, is to " decide the fate of the Austrian Monarchy." THE EXPEDITiorr. • Some of our contemporaries have given most de cic'kd .pinions with respect to the objea..of the Ex pedition. We shell not enter into any dispute with tl-,em upon the subject, but we think it not proper to publish the information which we have received until atter the Expedition has sailed, which we trust will be to-morrow or Saturday at the latest.—The following Letter from Deal, which we received this morning, shows the great exertions which have been ni a,;e to accelerate the embarkation of the troops. DP.AL, JVLY lg.—The boatmen of Deal are enti tled to much praise for their handsome conduEt in vo laAntaricy corning forward and tendering their services, and the use of their fine boats, to embark gratuitously any number of troops Government might send here. Their offer was accepted, and at day-light on the morning of the 26t h instant, the embarkation com menced—about 2,200 of the 4th Regiment were taken off from the shore, and safely delivered on bnard the respeEtive ships in less than an hour, not above one halt the boats being employed ; and, about t.,m) o'clock, on the arrival of those fine regiments, the . 92d Highlanders, andAth of the Line, amounting to near 4,500, the whole of theta were taken off in as short a period, without scarcely a man getting a wet shoe. On the 171 h, the 43d, 52d, and 95th Light In fantry Regiments matched in, and were immediately taken on board in as good order, and this morning, the t st battalion of the German Light Infantry, were also ernbarkekT. The boats are now in readiness for about 4000 more which are expeEted in the course of the day. e 'embarkation took place under the immediate sup:_---,rinteodance of Commodore OwEN, whose judi cious art angements met the high commendation of the parties interested, and of the almost innume rable speaators who lined the shore. The di,paich with which these troops were en,- tai - kcd, lii clearly demonstiated, that, in fine wen ‘ll,r, an army of 4u,000 men, could be shipped to hence, by the Deal boats in one day, a con. s •ration of amen importance surely, in any cases re expmlition ie requir:.ll. The,King's ships employed on this grand Expedi !oo, ‘vill 14o);)unt iu the • xvholo to upwards of 100 1 1, of which about 00 sail are alrecKly colle6ted in D 0 ,,,,,, 5 , an d t h e renyiin:!er are, we understand, ready at Pul-u;mouth and Stwerre-i:s, to form a junc ti,,n at a moment's notice. The exertions of the Naval Departments here are extraordimny : in the Dock-yard the whole of the persons 'employed there (from, the indefatigable Storekeeper down to the labourer) are incessantly •naged from five in the morning till nine at yi and in the Admiral's Offices a similar assiduity is perceptible. On Saturday List a very heavy firing was heard by our Cruizers all along the Dutch and French Coasts, but we are without Bulletins, or other information from those Countries since. Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, his MAJESTY arrived at the Queen's Palace, from Windsor, where he was receive; by the Dukes of YORK, KENT, and CUMBERLAND. At two o'clock his MAJESTY held a Private Levee, which was attended by The Lord Chancellor, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the President of the Board of Trade, the Secretaries of the Home and Foreign Departments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the President of the Board of Controut, the Secretary at War, the Commander-in-Chief, Generals Cole and Drummond, and Mr. Quinn, the Portu guese Ambassador. The following had the honour of being presented to his MAJESTY : Major4;eneral . Cole, upon his return from Sicily, by the .. . . Portuguele Ambassador. Ailajor:General Drummond, ui,on Ins arrival from Gi braltar. .. Mr. , rinn, Charge d'Affaires of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal to the Court of Sicily, by the Por- tugtiese Ambassador. His MAJF.sTy gave audiences to the LORD CHAN CELLOR, the Duke of PORTLAND, and- the rest of the 'Cabinet Ministers present ; also to Sir DAVID DUN DAS. Anout seven o'clock his MAJESTY set off for Windsor. Yesterday, soon after twelve o'clock, the Earl of CHATHAM left his house, in Hill -street, to proceed to take the command oft be Expedition. h e Noble Earl proceeded to the Ordnance Office, and trans atted business, and then went on to Downing-street, and transacted business at Lord CASTLEREACH'S Office; afterwards with Mr. CANNING, at his office; and about four o'clock left London for Rochester. His Lordship was to dine at the Crown Inn, a n d to sleep at Sittingbourne ; and the Noble Earl will this day meet Lord CASTLEREAGH at Ramsgate, previous to his embarkation to take upon him the command of the Expedition. In the general orders issued by the Earl of CHAT HAM, it is stated, that the Officers of the Commissa riat Department are to give receipts of a peculiar form to the Chief Magistrate or Burgomaster of the different towns, from whence they may have occa sion to make requisitions, but that no requisitions are to be made but such as are required for the pub lic service, as the troops will be ordered to pay with money for any provisions they may want, which shall not be supplied by the Commissariat ; and should any Officer make any requisition from the inhabitants, and give a receipt on the Commissary, such a receipt is to be duly discharged, and the Officer giving the same will be required to make it good, besides being made subjeCt to censure for dis obedience of orders. Nearly 300 of the River Fencibles have volun teered their services upon the Expedition now de. parting.—The Fencibles of Deptford and Green wich have also made a tender of their services, which has been accepted. The same bounty of 501. as well as the same allowances which were granted to this valuable body of men for their ser vices at Copenhagen, is to be granted them on the Ares ut occasion. Monday evening Lord CASTLEREAGH left town for Dover, to inspect the embarkation of the troops. On Monday night four Messengers were sent off from the Admiralty with the final dispatches of Mi nisters to the Commanders of the ships, to Dover, Ramsgate, Harwich, slid Portsmouth. On Tuesday the Lords of the Council held their last meeting tor, this season, at the Council Office Their Lordships afterwards proceeded upon the ap peal, Hanley v. the Attorney-Ge,..eral for the Island of Jersey. The following Peers have sat upon the Irish Episcopal Bench within these few years, viz. Wil liam Cecil Perry, Lord Glent worth, who died July 4, 1794, was Bishop of Limerick. Joseph Deane Bourke, Earl of Mayo, who died August '2O, 1794, was Archbishop of Tuaru. Richard Rokeby, Lord Rokeby, who stied October 10, 1794, was Arch bishop of Armagh. Frederick Hervey, of Bristol, who died July 7, 1803, was Bishop of Derry ; and Charles Agar, Earl of Normanton, the late Arch bishop of Dublin. who died tho I,4th instant. The last American Papers contain the Report of the Minister of Finance ; from which it appears that a considerable defalcation has taken place in the re venues of that Country, in consequence of the Em bargo and Non-intercourse Ads. The American General Wiettssosi, having, since his arrival at New Orleans, refused the invita tion of General ADAIR, to meet him in the field (1 honour, and to give him satisfaction for the injury done him in the case of the BURR conspiracy, Ge neral A. has posted the Commander in Chief of the American army ! as " a coward, and that to apply any weapon of chastisement to him more formidable than a horsewhip, would but disgrace the arm mak ing the application." Josator, we find, is making a journey from Madrid, in order to receive the homage of his sub jests, who, we are told, manifested t-ansports of joy, headed by the Clergy and Officers of Jus tice. The latter, no doubt, with, all their loyalty to the Usurper, would be very glad to perform the du ties of their funetion, in the discharge of national justice, upon a man who deprives them of their law ful Monarch ; and the Clergy, whatever they may affeet, would, most probably, be equally happy in the opportunity of administering ghostly comfort to him in his last moments. The " days of chivalry" are indeed over in France, when the people, once distinguished for heroic and generous sentiments, can see an atrocious Usurper, risen from the very dregs of society, con fine the Royal Family of Spain, keep them in utter ignorance of all that passes in the world, remove their countrymen from attendance on them, in or der to render their situation more secure, and sup .plying the place hose faithful domestics with wretches de, uteri di • •of an ambitious and restless 'Tyrant. i/bit 3 . f o r the Royal viaiins, and what a c country that _quietly permits theruiLo endure it it is very surprising that ,thereettre ectanany Cal vinists in England, and that there should not be any method of Commemoration for their immortal Founder (CALvIls). sion. NAVAL NEWS PLYMOUTH, JULY 1 B.—Arrived the Brothers, of London, WoLToN, Master, from Stockholm ; and the Bremen brig, Frechets, POULSEN, Master, from Stockholm, both laden with tar and deals, for this port ; sailed in company with 14 sail, under convoy of his Majesty's ship Superh. Two English vessels were left at Stockholm, which were expefted to sail in a few days for Eng land. Sailed his Majesty's ship Fortunje, of 36 guns, Capt. VANSITTART, for Portsmouth, to join the Ex pedition fitting out there. Arrived the brig Fame, WILLIAMS, from Dundalk, laden with provisions, for this port; his Majesty's ship Africaine, of 36 guns, Captain RAGGET, from Portsmouth ; his Majesty's ship Espiegle, of 18 guns, Captain MORRIS, from a cruize ; the Times, JOIINSOIC, from Swansea; Confidence, WATERS, from Lionel!) , ; and New Union, SEAJAANE, from Liverpool. A 74-gun ship, in tow by 3 man of war brig, is now off this Port, we have not been able to learn the name of either. PORTSMOUTH, JULY lg.—Arrived this day his Majesty's ships Malabar, of 50 guns, Captain Jolts HENSELL, from the West Indies; hardy, of 14 guns, Dapper, of 12 guns, and the Persian, of 10 guns, from a cruize. Arrived the American ship William, ---, from Boston, for this port ; (Villain, —, from London; Frederick, TAYLOR, and Dart, —, from Sunder land. Sailed his Majesty's ships Violet and Kangaroo for a cruize and the Union, of '74 guns, for the Downs. MARGATE, JULY 19.—The Expedition in OUr Roads are now nooer weigh. GREENOCK, JULY 17.—Arrived, on Friday, the Poniona, M' NAUGHT, from Jamaica, in thirty-nine days, having performed the voyage out and home in three motif hs and a half. Sailed in company with the Comet, of London John Bull, of Liverpool ; Eliza beth, of Belfast ; and a brig belonging to Kingston, name unknown, under convoy of his Majesty's sloop Dispatch. Partcd trom the whole of the vessels, ex cept the convoy, betore getting through the windward passage. Parted from the Dispatch on the 15th June in lat. 30. The Willoughby, of and for Lon don, was to have sailed in company, bat did not get down from Kingston to Fort Royal in time, owing to its blowing so hard. The Expedition under General CAR mICHA EL was all embarked, and the first division was to sail, the day atter the Pomona left Jamaica, against the city of St. Domingo. The United King dom, UDNEY, arrived at Kingston, from Martinique , the 3d June. His Majesty's sloop Dispatch spoke the If McLEA, from Clyde to Jamaica, the 1 1 th June, off Cape Nicola Mole. DOVER, JULY 19.—The homeward-bound Ja maica fleet may be hourly expetied the ship Sus ' pense, Capt. C. SIMONDS, from Jamaica, is arrived, which parted from the fleet, of 100 sail, in a fog au the c-nth of June, under convoy of his Majesty's ship Diamond. Pa,sed oy London the ship Brilliant, Captain GIBBs, from New York. .1 1 The fleet to join the Expedition in the Downs, from Portsmouth, is not yet passed, but is hourly expetted up. Leeward Island Papers to the loth of June inclu sive, have arrived. The following are the only ar tides in them of importance " JUNII t.--The French Frigates lying at Bas seterre, Guadaloupe, have not been, as reported, de stroyed ; nor any subsequent attack made upon them, that is yet known of here, since that formerly detailed in this Paper. The Acasta and Thetis Fri gates are still watching them. Nothing has transpired to explain the cannon , ading reported to have been heard in the neighbour hood of Guadaloupe ; and it is now mach civubted as to any I:ne of battle ships having got into Port Louis, stated by reports from St. Bartholomew. " JuNE 10.-The homeward-bound trade of this Island, to sail with the convoy of the present month, \yin leave this on the 19th inst. the day originally appoinied by Sir ALEX. COCHRANE for a ship of war to call here to convoy them to the general ren dezvons.—The July convoy is postponed until the 22d of the month.", Letters have been received from Rotterdam to the 13th instant. One of them imentions, that General ARMSTRONG, on the part of the Govern ment of the United States, had arranged with the Ministers at Paris a Commercial Tieaty, the con ditions of which were all agreed and determined; and it remained only for the ratification of the Ruler of France and the American President. - The letter adds, that one of the duplicates had been for warded to NAPOLEON for his approbation and signa ture. It will be recollected that the Edict of Buo- NAPARTE prohibits any American vessel from enter ing the ports . of Holland, which has either been received into a British harbour, or has spoken with a British ship. The letters to which we have just referred, notice that this order is put in force with tbe utmost rigour. Lord SPENCER and his family are going to pass a few months in the Isle of \V , e \dm h now !Mk ms to have become a favourite summer retreat. FRENCH AND DUCT Eli S. TWENTY-FOURTH BULLETIN. " VIENNA, JULY 3.—General Broussier had left two battalibns of the 84th regiment of the line in the town of Gratz, and proceeded to Vildon, to join the army of Dalmatia. " On the 96th of June, General Goilay appeared before Gratz, with 10,000 men, composed, it is true, of Croats and frontier regiments. The 84th, which was cantoned in one of the suburbs of the. town; repelled all attacks of the enemy, routed him every. where, took 500 men prisoners, and two standards, and maintained himself in his position 14 hours, giving time to General Broussier to come to his assistance. This candid of one with ten, cover ed the 84th, and its Colonel, Gambin, with honour. The standards were presented to his Majesty at the parade. We have to regret, that 20 of these brave fellows were killed, and 92 wounded. " On the 30th, the Duke of Auerstadt attacked one of the Islands of the Danube, at a small distance from the right bank opposite Presburgh, where the enemy had some troops. "Gen. Gudin directed this operation with skill it was executed by Colonel Decouz, and the,2 tst regiment of infantry of the line, which this °tilt:et commands. At two o'clock of the - morning, this regiment, partly in boats, and .partly swimminir, crossed, very narrow arm of the Danube, seizrid the islandefouted the 1500 men' who were upon i,t, and made 460 prisoners, among whom were the Culonel and several Otlicers of • the regiment St. Julian, and took three pieces of cannon, which the enemy had landed for the defence of the island. " At length there exists no longer any Danube, as far ae toecerns the French army. Gen. COent Bertrand has raised works which excite astonish ment, and inspire admiration. " Over a breadth of 400 fathoms, and over a very rapid river, he has in a fortnight raised a bridge formed of tjo arches, on which three carriages - can pass abreast ; he has built a second bridge upee piles eight feet broad; but this is fur infantry oruy.— Next to these two bridges is a bridge of boats-;; we can, therefore, pass the Danube in three caluesms. These three bridges are secured againSt all insults, even against the effects of - fire-ships and incendiary machines, by stoccadoes, raised on piles between the islands in different direetions, the fugthest of which are at i5O fathoms from the bridges.. When these immense works are contemplated, they might be thought to be the labour of many yearse they were, however, -produced in 15 or 20 dayss These works are defended by totes-de-poet, each of 1600 fathoms in extent, formed,of redoubts, surrounded by palisades, fusses, and ditches filled with water. The Island of Lobau is a strong post ; it contains magazines of provisions, 100 pieces of heavy can non, and e 0 mortars or howitzers. Opposne ling, on the left arm of the Danube, is a bridge, which the Duke of Itivolt has fixed there. It is covered by a tide-de pont, which bade been raised there at the time of the first passage of the river. " General Legrand occupies the woods itt the front of the tite-de-pont. The hostile army is in or der of battle, covered with redoubts the ;eft is at Entendort, the right at Great Aspern : a few di'- charges of musketry from the advanced posts have taken place. " Now, that the passage of the Danube is aectir ed, and that our bridges are shLltered from every attempt, the fate of the Austrian Monarchy will be decided in a single battle. " The waters of the Danube were, on the first of July, four feet above the lowest, and 13 ftct below t 4e highest point. The rapidity of the river at this part is, when the waters - ore high, from seven to twelve feet ; when the water is moderate,. four feet six inches, each second, and more strong than at any other point. In Hungary, it diminishes a great deal ; and at the place where Trajan raised a bridge, it is almost insensible. The Danube is there 450 fathoms broad; here it is only 400. The bridge of Trajan was a stone bridge, the work of several years. Cmsar's bridge over the Rhine was raised, it is true, in eight days, but no loaded carriage could pass over it. " The works on the Danube are the most beateie ful military works ever fimened. ‘` Prince Gazarin, Aide-de-Camp General of the Emperor of Russia, arrived at Schoenbrunn, at four of the morning the day before yesterday, at the moment the Emperor was mounting on tiorsebacK• He set out from Petersburgh the Bth of June. 1-10 has brought intelligence of the march of the Russian army into Gailicia. " His 111.tjesty his quitted Schoenbrunn ; he 105 been two days encamped. His tents are seri beautiful, and made in the style of the Egyptian tents." NAPLES, JUNE 30.—The Commandant of the Island ut Capri has been summoned to Surrender by the Commander of the English Expedition. Beiol; a man of-firmness and undersiandihg, he di(l noE condescend to answer the summons, kind returned . the dispatches without opening them. The inhabi' tants of Calabria have opened a subscrii:tion for the benefit of the volunteers who have tiown to the de fence of the coast. It has produced ?4,000 ducats' By a Decree of the 27th of May, his Maje , ,ty ba s established at Gaeta a depot for recruits, wide': lir e to garrison that fortress. VENICE, JULY 8 —We read in F the Ofcial Joor nal of Dalmatia, that, in obedience to the En - 1r roc's orders, 12,000 infantry, and 2000 cavalry, 11 11 : der General Molitor, were to pivoted on the of June, front Hungary, in orde'r to protect .1) 31 ' matia, and occupy Cruatia, and the whole Austrian' coast. AUGSBURG, .JULY the French militorY corps, Which were established in Suabia and &Iva , " will proceed successively to AUstria, in or. er unite with their respetAive divisions. The sett ice transporting effees, which has been hitherto formed by the inhabitants of the conquered color tries, and their hoses, will heuceforti. be done. th,• ex pence of the French Governn ent. For purpose, a great number of horses have hten bbug b at Vienna. ibe VIENNA, JUNE 28.—The different cmpa- - army of Italy are approaching Ebersdortf,'wlie; c .. i , is supposed the passage of the Datrihe be 1-l e',.„ ed. All the bridges are ready. There are t•: , 0 ° " 1 , the fist arm, four on the second, and eighi, will be fixed all at once in tour' hours' :;:ne, ou. l - 1 ..; third. On their side, the Austrians are tnakiii